RC5 is out

No matter what she did with her hair it took about
three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,
like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Footnote: Which,
no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil
overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
-- Terry Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies"
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1-RC5.tar.bz2
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1-RC5.tar.gz
(or rsync -avz --delete ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x)
(the rsync will give you RC5 plus few doc tweaks, and the patchlevel.h
is back to MAINTXXXX, not RC5), or unsurprisingly (please prefer this
link outside p5p):
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1-RC5.tar.gz
perldelta:
http://www.hut.fi/~jhi/perldelta-5.8.1-RC5.html
Please test. use.perl.org announcement will come later.
--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen